Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT) a simple, cost-effective treatment given at home using either packets of Oral
Rehydration Salts (ORS), costing about 10 cents each or a simple home solution of sugar, salt and water can prevent about 90% of child
deaths from diarrhoeal dehydration.

Dehydration caused by diarrhoea is the biggest single killer of children
in the modern world and diarrhoea itself is one of the major causes of nutritional loss and poor growth.

UNICEF and its partners have helped more than 45 countries to achieve treating 80% of child diarrhoea cases with ORT.

The infant mortality rate fell about 3% a year from 1950 to 1991. Prime reasons, according to the National Center for Health
Statistics: fewer deaths from pneumonia and influenza, respiratory distress syndrome, prematurity and low birthweight, birth defects and accidents.

61 nations are set to double their populations in one generation, between 1990 and 2025.

The proportion of under-nourished children under five years of age declined from 27% in 1990 to 20% in 2005.

Some 27% fewer children died before their fifth birthday in 2007 than in 1990.

Maternal mortality has barely changed since 1990.

One third of 9.7 million people in developing countries who need treatment for HIV/AIDS were receiving it in 2007.

MDG target for reducing the incidence of tuberculosis was met globally in 2004.

27 countries reported a reduction of up to 50% in the number of malaria cases between 1990 and 2006.

The number of people with access to safe drinking-water rose from 4.1 billion in 1990 to 5.7 billion in 2006. About 1.1 billion people in developing regions gained access to improved sanitation in the same period.

On a regular map, the sizes of the countries of the world are in proportion to their actual sizes on the surface of the planet and their
shapes are the same as their actual shapes. Here are redrawn maps with the sizes of countries made bigger or smaller in order to represent something
of interest. Such maps are called cartograms and can be an effective and natural way of portraying geographic or social data. Here are some
examples of Population, Gross domestic product, Child mortality, People living with HIV/AIDS, Total spending on healthcare, Energy consumption
(including oil), and Greenhouse gas emissions.

Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved by 2015 that respond to the world's main development challenges. The MDGs are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adopted by 189 nations during the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000. The facts below help provide a clearer picture of the world's progress towards achieving the eight MDGs.

Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

2 In developing countries, children from the poorest 20 per cent of households are more than 2 times as likely to be underweight as children from the richest 20 per cent.

2 In developing regions, children from the poorest 20 per cent of households have more than 2 times the risk of dying before their fifth birthday as do children from the richest 20 per cent of households.